READER TIM PADGETT calls attention to Howard Kurtz’s quotation of me saying “They told me when John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate that we’d be embarrassed by repeated gaffes from an unqualified vice-presidential candidate. And they were right!” Padgett says, “I think you’ve been Dowd-ified.”

I dunno. To me, the context — Joe Biden’s gaffes — seems clear, even if I was actually talking about a bunch of other Biden gaffes, too. But thanks to Insta-readers for keeping watch on this stuff.